Back in the day when myspace was the popular social network, I vowed to myself that I would never have a myspace page or anything like it. Well I still have kept part of my promise to myself in the regards to the fact that I do not have a myspace page but I do have a facebook page. In my defense I only just recently created a facebook page, for a very long time I boycotted it, mainly because it became a part of people's everyday vocabulary and I didn't want to follow the trend.
So I bet you're wondering why now did I join the facebook phenomenon? Simple, for marketing purposes! I haven't done my research on this but I presume that there are millions of people with facebook pages all over the world and it seems to be the perfect place to advertise your products. They even have a pay per click advertising strategy where you obtain targeted visitors. Anyway that was my only reason for why I joined but then I started to add friends to my page and was able to find many high school friends who I had not spoken to for ages, and it was really nice to have a chat to them and see what they are up to. I absolutely love looking at the photos that people put up because it so awesome to see how much we have grown and how different we all look now compared to when we were in high school, but the best thing is that everyone still has the same personality they had back then (one of the reasons why I was friends with them in high school). Facebook is also a getting to know your friends a little better, because sometimes you believe that your friends only have one certain layer, but when you read their profile on pages such as facebook you find out all these new things about them that you never knew and not only do you have more to talk about but you realize that you have more in common than you thought.
I also, like many people, love numerous applications that you can add to your page, such as free gifts, plants, superpoke, music, video clips and my favorite tv shows quotes and trivia. I am a huge fan of the tv show Friends and I love the trivia on my facebook page and I'm up to 11000 points and I promise myself to keep going until I have taken the number one spot (lol). I also enjoy the fact that you can join different sorts of groups or make up your own and get others to join, you meet a lot of new people from around the world that way.
So all and all I will admit that I am glad that I have a facebook page and for the first few days I was on it pretty much the whole day. But it is a great way to catch up with people who you have not seen for centuries and also keeping in touch with the people in your life at the moment.
